R.I.P. for the real Wubbo Ockels. He was a true icon of my country, and a great front-fighter for sustainable energie/technology and humanism.

"Yes, we have hurdles, we have distractions, we have disasters, personally and world-wide, and we do have to work it all out ourselves. BUT, there is a most amazing experience awaiting us on the other end of the finish-line.The idea being, once we can handle it all down here, then we can live and explore eternally, responsibly, because we know what not to do, and not be resentful about being responsible, so we don't start a polarity domino effect in the other realms of existence."

"The Fraction" of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity."

WAS aboard US Navy ship the Norton Sound in 1946, that went to Thule Greenland to build airfield there AND had 4-5 scientists aboard the had instruments to measure the radiation from same, on our upper boat deck. Place was roped off, as we were not to get to close to the instruments.

I went there with a friend to box, and not be observed by other crew. Our seaplanes mapped all of Greenland, and CBs built an airfield; set up Quonset huts for crews.

We had NO COMMUNICATION with the rest of the world for 11 days, due to the sunspots; it was that bad ! Obviously affected the ionesphere AND compasses, as a mail plane flying up from Goose Bay Labrador got lost. We sent out a plane that tracked it's signal, and miraculously spotted the plane circling through a hole in the clouds and led it back to our ship. Problem was, they through out 11 sacks of mail to lighten the plane, and ran out of gas while landing. No ONE spoke to the crew of that plane while they were there.

While we worry about future threats like global warming, and present threats like Iran’s escalating nuclear program, the sun’s propensity for belching out monstrous solar flares (like the Carrington event of 1859) could almost instantly create a world without modern conveniences, or even electricity. The sun could literally “bomb us back to the stone age”.

Imagine a world without iPhones, and you’d understand why Homeland security rates New York and Seattle the highest for likelihood of major social unrest. Humans don’t do well in the dark. DHS has taken notice.

cant say for 100% sure just yet, because we need a bit better of a view (that we will have later today)but as it is right now with what we Can see...it is not 2 sunspotsit is onewith a leading spot, and a trailing spot

we can see here that it is one sunspot with only a small viewable seperation between the leading spot and the trailing spot